Auxillary stove-lid plate.



G. H. JONES.

AUXILIARY STOVE LID PLATE.

APPLIOAITION rmm mm: a, 1908.

Patented Dec. 15,1908.

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GEORGE H. JONES, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

AUXILIARY STOVE-LID PLATE No. 906,534. Specification of Application filed June 6, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonon H. Joxns, a citizen of the United States, residing at ilmington, in the county of Newcastle and State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Auxiliary Stove-Lid Plates, of which the following is a specification.

Hy invention relates to stove plates forming the top of a stove or range and particularly to a certain auxiliary plate whereby an opening may be provided in the center of the top plate as well as at either side of the center.

The plates forming the top of stoves or ranges as commonly used to-day are formed with a longitudinal opening in the general shape of an oblong having rounded ends. Crossing the opening is a middle bridge plate having semi-circular, interiorly curved sides, and covering the two lateral openings thus formed are two stove lids. i ihile it is possible with this arrangement to remove either one of the lateral lids or both lids and the bridge plate, it is not possible to so arrange the plates as to provide a middle opening over the center of the fire. This is found desirable as for instance when the fire is low, as is its condition in the early morning. The low fire is hottest at the middle of the stove and indeed, it often happens that there is no fire at all at the ends of the grate beneath the ordinary lateral lids. \Vhen this is the case it is necessary either to remove all the plates and set the kettle in on the coals at the middle of the stove, thus preventing proper draft, or to rake the fire over to one side which acts to spread the coal and to lessen or to put out the fire entirely.

The object of my invention is to overcome these disadvantages by providing a stove top with supplemental bridge or covering plates which may be fitted into and supported in the ordinary opening of the stove top and which will provide a central opening to which one of the ordinary lateral stove lids may be applied.

In the drawings Figure 1, is a plan View of the top of a stove provided with the supplemental plates referred to. Fig. 2, is a perspective of the top of the stove the lids and plates being removed. Fig. 3, is a perspective of one of my supplemental plates. Fig. 4:, is a longitudinal section of Fig. 1 on line -l-et, and Fig. 5, is a longitudinal section Letters Patent.

Serial No. 437,057.

Patented Dec. 15, 1908.

like Fig. 4 only showing a modified form of the end plates.

Like reference characters throughout the several views designate like parts.

A designates the top plate of a stove or range constructed in any desired manner or form, but having therein the usual opening A, see Fig. 2. This opening as usually constructed is rather more than twice as long as it is wide and is semi-circular at each end as at (I. .\t both sides the opening is laterally widened as at 0', thus providing the shoul- I, l' l ders o. .l he edges of the opening are rabbeted as at a, for the support of the lids and bridge plate.

The opening A is usually carried by a supporting bridge plate which .is shown in dotted lines, in Fig. '1, the ends of which till the spaces between the shoulders at, and whose sides are interiorly curved sen'ii-circles adapted to [it along the edge of one half of the lateral lids, the other half of these lids being supported on the curved ends of the opening A. All this is the ordinary construction, the objections to which have before been set forth.

My invention resides in the plate ll shown in Fig. 3, and the combination of two such plates with the set of ordinary plates. Each plate 13 is of a general crescent shape, the cusps of the crescent having straight outer edges 5 fitting along the straight sides of the opening A. The exteriorly curved edge I) of the plate B fits in the curved end of the opening A, while the interiorly curved edge Z) is adapted to fit and support the circular lid 0. This lid may be and is intended to be one of the lids which under ordinary circumstances closes the end openings before referred to in the top plate. At the unction of the curved back 5 with the straight sides 12 there are provided the shoulders I) to contact with the shoulders (1.. Of course, all the edges of the plate B are rabbeted to engage with and be supported on the rabbet a. The auxiliary plates B are of course each provided with the usual openings If for the insertion of a litter.

The application of my invention will be readily understood. hen it is desired to provide a central opening the ordinary bridge piece is removed altogether with the lateral lids, the end plates 13 are substituted, and the central opening thus left is closed by the ordinary stove lid C.

Tn addition to a central opening it is also possible with my construction to provide a 1 plates being semi-circular and of the same relatlvely long opening whose center is to 1 diameter as the sem1-c1rcular opening of the one side of the middle of the stove by using only one of the end plates B and leaving off the other end plate and the cover.-

VVhile stoves, ranges, etc., might be made having a full set of these plates, the old as well as the new, I also contemplate the end plates being made separately as articles of manufacture, the plates being made of standard sizes to fit standard makes of stoves.

In Fig. 5, I have shown a modified form of end plate B as applied in relation to the ordinary plates of the stove. In this form the end plates are made with a double rabbet, in other words, a rabbet (Z is formed on each side of the edge of the plate. The advantage of this construction is that it permits the end plates B to be made alike and not in pairs as is necessary where the plate is only provided with a single rabbet. The plate with a double rabbet may be arranged at either end of the opening A.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A stove or range plate provided with a longitudinal opening formed with semicircular ids and straight sides, the straight sides of the opening being wider apart than said stove plate; and a circular central plate closing the space between the two end plates and supported thereon, all of said plates being rabbeted on their interior and exterior edges.

2. In combination with a top plate of a stove having a longitudinal opening therein formed with semi-circular ends and straight sides, the straight sides of the opening being wider apart than the diameter of the semicircular ends and having shoulders formed at the junction of said straight sides and semi-circular ends; a central bridge plate having semi-circular side edges, the ends of said bridge plate being adapted to fit be tween the shoulders formed 011 the sides of said top plate; and two lateral circular lids; of substitute end plates crescent shaped in plan having the cusps thereof formed with straight exterior edges and having shoulders formed at the junction of the straight eX- terior edges with the semi-circular portion of said crescent shaped plate, the ends of said cusps adapted to meet and contact with each other, the interior opening of said plate being circular and of the same diameter as the said lateral circular lids, the said crescent shaped plates being thereby adapted to meet and contact with each other leaving a central opening adapted to be covered by one of said lateral lids.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE H. JONES.

lVitnesses FREDERIC B. \VRIGHT, R. H. KRENKEL. 

